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Obad.a Trojan now being distributed via mobile botnets

Sep

2013

In late May we reported on the details of Backdoor.AndroidOS.Obad.a, the most sophisticated mobile Trojan to date. At the time we had almost no information about how this piece of malware gets onto mobile devices. We have since been examining how the Trojan is distributed and discovered that the malware owners have developed a technique […]

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Stronger Windows 8 Still Vulnerable Through Apps, Users

Jul

2012

This is the third in a series of posts about Microsoft Windows 8, the Metro interface, and our view of its security status. To review the first two articles, click here and here.UEFI and Secure BootWith Windows 8, Microsoft introduces Secure Boot, which allows the boot sequence to be secure and trusted. For cryptographic verification […]

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Anatomy of a security hole – the break that broke sudo

May

2012

A recently-patched bug in the widely-used sudo command makes for interesting reading. The patch reminds us of some important points in security-related programming.The UNIX sudo command is usually translated to mean “do as superuser” – in other words, it lets you run administrative commands one at a time, without logging in as the superuser (root, […]

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